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00:01Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.
00:03Oh, wow.
00:04What is that?
00:05That's exactly like the sticks we found near the vault.
00:08I truly believe there's still another vault there.
00:11Whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:12There it is, the void.
00:13That's right.
00:13Is that natural, or is that an open cavern?
00:16Only a sonar could tell you that, really.
00:17All right, well, that's what we'll do.
00:18Hopefully, we'll find the one thing.
00:20Crush your fingers.
00:20We're in the cavity.
00:22Yeah, you're in.
00:22We'd love nothing better than to see a man-made cavern or vault.
00:26We've got an opening.
00:27This is not natural.
00:31There is an island in the North Atlantic where people have been looking for an incredible treasure for more than
00:39200 years.
00:41So far, they have found a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it.
00:47Man-made workings that date to medieval times.
00:51And a lead cross whose origin may be connected to the Knights Templar.
00:56To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
01:02And, according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found.
01:21As a new day begins on Oak Island.
01:24Here we go.
01:26The N13.5.
01:28This is an area that we really haven't looked at very much and certainly haven't been to the bottom of
01:32the solution channel in very much.
01:33Rick and Marty Lagina and their team are shifting their strategy to look for treasure more than 200 feet deep
01:41in the Money Pit area.
01:43Right in the heart of the Peacock.
01:45Yep.
01:46The Peacock is a real phenomenon.
01:47It's a loose, slushy area leading down into the solution channel.
01:52Look.
01:54They are drilling a borehole known as BN13.5, located 45 feet northeast from recent drilling locations and in an
02:05area dubbed by Marty Lagina as the Peacock.
02:08So, right at 55 is like the bottom drop right out of her.
02:12It was here where three years ago, the team drilled through heavily slushy material between 55 and 150 feet deep
02:22before entering the solution channel at a depth of nearly 170 feet underground.
02:29Now, in order to explore another area of the solution channel, where new water tests have revealed more evidence of
02:37precious metals, the team is once again drilling down through the Peacock.
02:43The Peacock is almost like the solution channel sitting on top of the solution channel.
02:47It's a very low, dense area of what I'm going to call, Terry, a higher mud river.
02:54We never really drilled to the bottom as much as we should have, I believe.
02:59The Peacock is an area of significantly unconsolidated soils.
03:04Terry Matheson, a resident geologist, can explain how that can exist.
03:10There may be a tunnel or a shaft in close proximity, which has caused the soils to destabilize.
03:18But the historical record does not indicate anyone being in this area, i.e. searchers.
03:25So, what happened here?
03:27What is the story and where is the treasure?
03:30I think we're in a really good area here. I really do.
03:32There's probably multiple number of holes we could put here.
03:35I agree with that 100%.
03:36And you know, until we actually hold the treasure in our hand, I'm not willing to rule out any area
03:41as possible.
03:42I totally agree.
03:43While the core drilling operation continues in the Money Pit area.
03:49Wow.
03:51Made some good progress.
03:52Yeah.
03:54Katya Drayton and Derek Couch join Billy Gerhardt in the southwest corner of the swamp.
04:01All right.
04:01We'll open this up a little bit to give us room that maybe you can get down and detect around
04:05a little bit.
04:07We'll start over here.
04:08Yep.
04:09I'll see where you dump and then I'll move there.
04:12The team is searching for artifacts that might help identify who built a stone formation uncovered in this area three
04:19weeks ago.
04:21As well as a possibly related stone road that was unearthed several yards to the north.
04:28Both of which were lined by wooden survey stakes.
04:39What is that?
04:44Oh, wow.
04:46We just found another steak.
04:48Oh, good.
04:49That's quite something.
04:51In place as well.
04:52Oh, my gosh.
04:55How many sides?
04:58Four cuts.
05:00It looks like one side is unfinished, but this reminds me of the five sided steak we found earlier.
05:08This has been in here for a while.
05:10And what's most impressive of that one is that this steak was still standing at a very deep point in
05:16the swamp.
05:16So it's exactly where somebody put it.
05:19There's three feet of stuff on top of that, right?
05:22Yeah.
05:23It's cut with purpose.
05:24Yeah.
05:25And it's ax cut.
05:26Mm-hmm.
05:27You can see there now is a round pit down there, which is pretty hard to do with a square
05:31excavator bucket, so.
05:33As you were digging, it just kept falling in there.
05:35Right.
05:36It does give you the inclination there's something down there.
05:39Right.
05:40I just pushed my bucket and the stuff fell in, but now you can really see the shape of what
05:44it was when it was dug.
05:46So somebody dug a pit there and it wasn't me.
05:48Yeah.
05:49Maybe that steak marked why they dug there.
05:52You know who and why, right?
05:53Yeah.
05:54Could Billy be correct that someone previously dug in this area and then marked it with a wooden steak?
06:01If so, could this steak be an important sign of what else the team may uncover here?
06:08Rick told us to keep an eye out for these and we'll definitely have to get Steve out here to
06:14pin this.
06:15I think with the dating of the wood and the depth that we had it when Steve pins it that
06:19Dr. Spooner might be able to put a date on, but that steak has to go back a long time.
06:24Hopefully there's more there, but that is a great start.
06:27Maybe we can find an answer instead of a question.
06:30Yeah.
06:31So it would be nice to find some answers.
06:33We'll keep going.
06:34All right.
06:35As the dig in the swamp continues...
06:39Gary had done a complete scan of the Lot 5 spoil piles and lo and behold, this item was found.
06:45Rick and other members of the team join Laird Niven and Emma Culligan in the lab for a report on
06:52a folded copper coin, or token,
06:54found one week ago in spoils that were removed from the round feature on Lot 5.
07:01You were quite excited about that find.
07:04Yeah.
07:04When it came out, I'm thinking, oh, it's some kind of, like, folded coin I'm hoping.
07:11These are unusual.
07:13I have found these type of finds in England, metal detecting, and they're normally, like, talisman or good-look tokens.
07:22They're put out there, sometimes they ward off even bad luck, but it was good luck for us because we
07:28found it.
07:29Yeah.
07:30Does it cross cultural lines or religious lines, meaning one faith might be more accepting of it, maybe more...
07:38I mean, Catholicism for sure, I would think.
07:41It's interesting because this tradition, I think the first recorded one in England is, like, 1290.
07:48You fold a coin and pray to a saint for a miracle, and that's how this all started.
07:54Yeah.
07:57The team has found a number of potentially religious artifacts in the round feature, such as the 14th century lead
08:05barter token that may be linked to the Knights Templar.
08:08They have also found Phoenician trade beads and two ornate buttons that could be connected to the Knights of Malta,
08:16an order with known ties to the Templars, who built a stronghold in Nova Scotia back in 1632.
08:25We need to know from you what you think it is and what it represents and how old it might
08:30be.
08:31Okay.
08:33So, for the CT scan, I guess the main question that first needs answering is whether or not there's any
08:39reliefs or signs that it is a coin.
08:42Mm-hmm.
08:43And immediately, I'm going to say there's nothing that I can really see so far.
08:48Yeah.
08:49I mean, we can't definitively say it's a coin, but if we look at why coins are traditionally folded, it
08:58needs to have some value to give literal weight to the talisman.
09:05So, we can assume it was valuable to somebody at some point, and then the triple folding is quite unusual.
09:12Yeah.
09:13We thought it would be fairly straightforward.
09:15Yeah, we did.
09:16Yeah.
09:17What does the data tell you the age of this item is?
09:21So, based on the composition, it is a copper alloy with the zinc content, zinc being an alloying element.
09:27It's definitively post-medieval and pre-mid 1800s.
09:33There's the arsenic and lead content as an alloying element as well, which is from at least around the time
09:40of, like, industrial revolution of mid 1700s, potentially earlier.
09:44And then the arsenic could push it to late 1600s.
09:54The arsenic could push it to the 1600s, late 1600s.
09:58The fact that someone took all that time to fold it over three times.
10:04I mean, it is significant.
10:07It is a meaningful artifact.
10:11In the lab, Emma and Laird have just revealed that the folded copper artifact found in the Lot 5's oils
10:19may hold religious symbolism and date back to more than a century before the discovery of the money pit.
10:27And sometimes if it was disease, they'd put a bent over coin or token to ward off the disease.
10:36Yeah.
10:37Somebody went to some pains to do it then.
10:39Yeah.
10:40To me, it looks quite well done.
10:41Yeah.
10:43We're on an island, but it's a big province.
10:45Have you ever found anything like this on digs or know of any of our archaeological digs where they found
10:51these type of offerings?
10:53Not that I can remember specifically in Nova Scotia from an archaeological context.
11:00Of course, we're on an island.
11:02Sailors came to the island.
11:04They were all superstitious, especially in 1700s.
11:08True.
11:09Oh, there are a lot of possibilities.
11:11Obviously, the first one is just preparing for your voyage.
11:14Yeah.
11:15Yeah.
11:15Coming here from Europe was not an easy thing, right?
11:18Exactly.
11:19Yeah.
11:20My suspicion is that's intentional.
11:22It's folded perfectly.
11:24Yeah.
11:25And maybe, maybe three folds mean something different than two folds.
11:28Yeah.
11:29Our research hasn't gone that far yet.
11:31Given the enormity of finds, that date to the 1600s, there were buttons.
11:37Then you have the trade beats, right?
11:39And the dates you're implying are highly suggestive of the connection to the Knights of Malta.
11:45Their attempt to either create a colony here or to do something else.
11:53Given the potential symbolism of this artifact, could the team be correct that it might be related to the buttons
12:01and ornate trade beats that have been potentially linked to the order of the Knights of Malta?
12:07The folded coin is certainly the first of its kind on the island, but it's just a puzzle piece.
12:14How do you connect all of the artifacts in Lot 5 feature?
12:18It's starting to build a body of evidence, but I think in order to fully understand what happened on Lot
12:245, there's a lot more work to be done.
12:28But at some point, with enough puzzle pieces, then you can tell the complete story.
12:34Just love to know what's on the inside.
12:37And I'd like to see the puzzle completed.
12:41It's one of those little, innocuous-looking things that has a great story behind it.
12:46It was good luck that we found it.
12:48I think there's a lot of information that we can learn because of its uniqueness.
12:52And don't forget Sandy Campbell.
12:55That's a good thought.
12:56With Sandy, he's not just a numismatist, he's a historian.
13:03And he might know the history of these coins.
13:06Exactly.
13:07No.
13:07I look forward to what we uncover.
13:09Or what we unfold.
13:13Unintended.
13:15All right.
13:16See you. Thank you.
13:17Bye-bye.
13:20Keep your eyes peeled here.
13:22Meanwhile, in the southwest corner of the swamp, Katya, Derek, and Billy continue to search for more artifacts near the
13:30stone formation.
13:32Yeah, Katya, there's a funny piece in that last bucket.
13:35Oh, yeah.
13:37Oh, my gosh.
13:40That's a something there, yeah.
13:42Piece of planking.
13:43That's a strand.
13:45The top looks maybe cut, but it's wide and it comes to a point like a wedge.
13:50No, it does.
13:52Yeah, it's tapered.
13:54So, you know, somebody's spent some time to make it for a very special purpose, I would say.
13:58It's got a great groove right there.
14:01A bunch of little dents in it.
14:03I'm thinking it might be an aura paddle just because of the shape.
14:07Yeah.
14:08They're so close to the ship's rail, and maybe if you get it tested, it's some part of the same
14:13ship.
14:14If we find more pieces of the same one, that would be pretty telling to what actually went on in
14:19here.
14:19Yeah.
14:20A possible piece of an oar?
14:23Could Billy be correct that it may be related to the piece of a ship's railing found just a few
14:29yards to the east back in 2020,
14:32which was carbon dated to as early as the 7th century?
14:36If so, might all of the artifacts that the team is finding in this area be connected to the nearby
14:44stone feature?
14:45I think somebody will be able to look at that and look at the taper, whether it is an oar
14:49or a wedge or whatever it is, doesn't matter.
14:51Connect some dots.
14:53Yeah.
14:53We'll put this to the side.
14:55Definitely an interesting piece.
14:57Yep.
14:58It's what Marty says all the time, you know, facts are stubborn things, like the ship's railing going back into
15:03the 600 ADs.
15:05It's very confusing, and we have data across the board from literally from the 1200s right up through 1750.
15:14And the bogs with the types of constructions that have been followed.
15:19That looks like another stake.
15:21Billy, got another stake right under you.
15:26My hope is that as the work continues in the bog, the gaps in that information will be filled in.
15:34That is one of those big round ones.
15:38This is probably one of the biggest stakes I've ever seen.
15:41We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, eight sides.
15:51That reminds me exactly of the stakes we found near the vault.
15:55Definitely something going on here.
15:58The team has found dozens of wooden stakes across the swamp that have featured different numbers of cuts at their
16:05points.
16:06But when they uncovered the empty slate and brick vault in the northern region one year ago,
16:12it was after following a trail of eight sided cut stakes that lined a cobblestone path.
16:19Is it possible that this eight sided stake could be connected to that vault like feature?
16:25And could it mean another one that may still contain valuables is hidden in this area?
16:32It looked like it was about four feet down in that sand there.
16:35Yeah.
16:36The eight side ones are almost all that same, that really big circumference.
16:40The more sides that it has, based on the testing that we did in the island, the older that they
16:45tend to be.
16:46Yeah.
16:46Every bucket full now we're finding something.
16:48There was a ton of activity right here.
16:50I'm sure we'll have a bunch of stuff to take back to the lab for everybody to look at.
16:55Well, that's another good find.
16:57Well, I'll put it over there and then we'll keep going.
16:59Oh, good eye, Derek.
17:00That's cool.
17:04As the sun rises over Oak Island.
17:08You ready to rock, Charles?
17:10Yeah.
17:10Here we go.
17:12In the Money Pit area, Terry and Charles monitor the core drilling operation in borehole BN 13.5
17:20as it sinks deeper into the peacock area.
17:28Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
17:32We've never had this much fallout.
17:34No.
17:35Yeah, it's too hard to tell if it's a void or if it's just water graveled.
17:41Yeah.
17:42Okay, Charles, it looks like you lost the core.
17:45Gone out the end of the core barrel.
17:46Okay.
17:48Here's Adam now.
17:49Hey, Adam, you lost that, right?
17:51Yeah.
17:52And no recovery.
17:53No recovery, no.
17:54Oh, man.
17:54We pushed from 148 to 158 and the rods are sinking when I run the casing.
18:01They're sinking.
18:02We're in pretty loose material, obviously.
18:04It's loose.
18:04We're right in the heart of the peacock.
18:06Yeah.
18:06So you're just going to try and push to 168 to try and get something solid?
18:09Yeah.
18:10Excellent.
18:11Great stuff.
18:11Thanks a lot.
18:12Good.
18:12Appreciate it.
18:14Interesting to see what we come up with on this one.
18:16We're excited about this because we're in the area where we got gold and silver in the water.
18:23And, you know, as we're drilling down, the mud and the muck is very loose and sloppy.
18:29Oh, yeah.
18:30Is it loose because of high activity by humans?
18:34That looks promising.
18:36Yeah.
18:37Is it possible that this could be an opening that was man-made?
18:41If it is, if it's something we didn't know existed.
18:44Whatever was there, we got it.
18:46Right on.
18:47But it got hard at the bottom.
18:50Very sloppy at the top.
18:52Okay.
18:53All right.
18:54Let's carve this up.
18:55Okay.
18:56This is the firm bottom of this area of the peacock, right here.
19:00Yep.
19:01And the bottom here is limestone-rich material.
19:03It's really only 10 feet of recovery for a whole 20 feet drilled all the way from 148 to 168.
19:09Definitely, we've got an effective water-filled void from about 148 to 158.
19:15It'll all breathe.
19:16Yeah.
19:17A possible 10-foot void above the solution channel?
19:21It's a peacock.
19:22If so, is it simply a natural feature?
19:25Or could it be a man-made chamber?
19:28I gotta go.
19:29Okay.
19:30What is a surprise is when we encounter a relative void, I mean, you think human activity
19:35in that area, this is shaping up to be a really interesting hole.
19:40Hey, Terry.
19:40How you doing?
19:41How's it going?
19:41Uh, we're loose from between 148 and 158.
19:47Relatively loose, washed-out material like what you'd expect down inside a solution channel.
19:52Okay.
19:52Relatively high, but this is possibly a void.
19:56Now, is that natural or is that an open man-made chamber?
20:00We don't know.
20:01Yeah.
20:01We're also getting elevated results for precious metals, associated copper-lead-zinc type of things
20:08that are associated with the treasure in the peacock.
20:12So, yeah, for me, I've always been a believer that there's an offset chamber in the money pit,
20:15and if there is an offset chamber, it makes sense it would be in this area.
20:20Exactly.
20:22The Oak Island team has long suspected that whoever built the money pit
20:26may have not only buried treasure at the bottom of the shaft,
20:29but also constructed a tunnel away from the main shaft
20:33to hide a cache of treasure in an offset chamber.
20:37Is it possible that this theory could explain the potential 10-foot void
20:42that the team has just encountered 148 feet deep in the peacock?
20:49So, what we found was an area with possibly a water-filled void.
20:55That's a candidate for a sonar, don't you think?
20:57I think so.
20:59Adam!
21:03Quick question!
21:04What's up?
21:05We had a bit of an open area, which I think of as a void.
21:09Yep.
21:10Is it a void?
21:11Only a sonar could tell you that, really.
21:14Yeah.
21:14Right?
21:14All right.
21:15Well, that's what we'll do.
21:16Yep.
21:16All right.
21:16So, if this proves fruitful, I can see this being a case on location.
21:20Yeah.
21:20We're not done with the peacock.
21:22Yep.
21:23Absolutely.
21:24As the team arranges to look deeper into borehole BN 13.5.
21:30I want to thank you for coming down.
21:32This, when Gary found it, it was coin-like.
21:35Rick.
21:35In the research center, Rick and other members of the team meet with coin expert Sandy Campbell.
21:42It's very peculiar.
21:43Again, a one-off.
21:45Yeah.
21:46To have him examine the folded copper artifact that was found on Lot 5.
21:51I've never found another one of these on the island.
21:54So, I don't know.
21:55I'm hoping you can help us here.
21:57Okay.
22:00Yeah, this is extremely interesting.
22:09And it is a coin.
22:12Folded three times.
22:15You know, when they first started folding coins, it was early medieval times.
22:20It represents a ritual that's thousands of years old.
22:24Yeah.
22:25It was thought that when you folded a coin, you could trap, you know, the evil inside the coin.
22:33And at some point when that evil has passed, if you pass the coin on or if you buried it,
22:40there was no more risk to you from that evil.
22:43Hmm.
22:45And it relates to Christianity, the Crusades, you know, even the Knights Templar.
22:52However, because of the size of this coin, it's not likely medieval.
22:57And this is probably 16, 17 hundreds.
23:01Really?
23:02But I think it still has the same religious and spiritual meaning.
23:11Fascinating.
23:20It's an interesting piece.
23:27Yeah.
23:27In the research center, Sandy Campbell has confirmed that the folded artifact found near the round feature on Lot 5
23:35is indeed a coin.
23:37And maybe a 17th century religious symbol connected to the Knights Templar.
23:43Trapping evil.
23:44It seems like a strange ritual, right?
23:48It's a bizarre ritual, but, you know, copper was really a show of wealth.
23:54And it was also a show of strength to anybody in medieval times.
23:58Hmm.
23:59So the only folded coins you will see from that period, you're not going to see folded silver or gold.
24:05They're always going to be copper.
24:06Really?
24:07Yeah.
24:08Folding of coins was also a ritual to honor saints.
24:12Hmm.
24:13The Knights Templar, they worship both St. George and St. Bernard.
24:19Yeah.
24:19And there was a ritual with folded coins where you would fold the coin, trap the evil, toss it away
24:27as an homage to those saints.
24:29Hmm.
24:30So it's bizarre that you have this piece on the island.
24:35I guess that ritual continued into the 1600s.
24:41Really?
24:41Yeah.
24:42So you feel that this is probably 1600s?
24:47At the earliest.
24:49So my mind always goes to the Knights of Malta.
24:52Interesting.
24:54Which is one of our suspects on the island.
24:56That falls right in that time period.
24:58Mm-hmm.
25:00Is it possible that this folded copper coin might offer another key clue that sacred treasures of the Knights Templar
25:07and the religious order of the Knights of Malta may be connected to the Oak Island mystery?
25:15Sandy Campbell's statement that the Trifold goes back to medieval times during the time of the Templars.
25:22It's very curious.
25:24We have proven, in fact, that the Knights of Malta had interactions and even through families of great importance with
25:32the Templars.
25:33And there was a connection between the two.
25:36So there is a possible tie there.
25:39There's more research to be done.
25:42It's strange because there are some, I believe, Lord, correct me if I'm wrong, but that feature that you've uncovered.
25:48Mm-hmm.
25:49It's basically east to west, is it not?
25:51It's orientation.
25:52The long axis.
25:53We know from the churches we visited and the historical places when we went to Europe,
25:58all Templar-associated buildings and constructions were east-west orientation.
26:05It's interesting, different, and adds to the mystery.
26:10There's no way to unfold that coin, physically unfold it.
26:15My initial response is you folded it to capture evil.
26:19Yeah, so if you back it up.
26:21Yeah, you're on your own there.
26:25I don't know what's in there.
26:27No, it's unfortunate that we can't learn more about it.
26:31You know, the hope is as the work continues on Lot 5, because you're not done, we find others.
26:38And hopefully they'll be able to tell us something a little bit more than what's currently in front of us.
26:43Exactly.
26:43So we thank you very much for coming down.
26:46I appreciate it.
26:48After the meeting in the research center.
26:51I'm really expecting to find some good things in here.
26:54Then this really should be a potential for a high traffic area.
26:57While members of the team search for more clues in the round feature on Lot 5.
27:02We'll see what today brings.
27:03Yeah, let's see.
27:05Rick and Katya arrive on Lot 8, located on the western side of the island.
27:10Let's have at her.
27:11High five before we start.
27:14Two weeks ago.
27:15Perfect.
27:17All right, Gary, here's our first location.
27:18Okay, right.
27:19While the team searched for clues on a straight line that led away from a potential 12th century marker stone
27:25on Lot 5.
27:26Gary and Peter found part of a possible barrel on Lot 8.
27:32Now, Rick wants to see if that find might be related to something more valuable buried nearby.
27:40Oh.
27:43That's a hit.
27:47Right there?
27:52Good face.
28:03it's looking to be iron
28:07let's see
28:11there you go
28:14oh
28:16look at that
28:19what is this
28:21I don't know
28:22looks like two holes in it right there
28:25yeah
28:27not heavy enough to be a tool though is it
28:29I think this might be a knife handle
28:32because there's another hole down here
28:33oh really
28:34yeah you'd possibly have like another side to this
28:38and then you'd have the blade starting up there
28:41you can really see how both of the holes are square on each side
28:48your father has always said that
28:50square holes imply a hole there
28:53yeah
28:53all right
28:54well I know one thing I'd like to see that on a CT scan right
28:59I would definitely agree with you
29:00well we'll bag this
29:02yeah
29:02tag it
29:03all right
29:05there are all kinds of questions about lot 8
29:07in this particular location
29:09there is no data or no record
29:13that people are in this area doing something
29:15following the discovery of the money pit
29:18all right
29:19thank you
29:19thank you
29:20it's a good start
29:21so anything you find
29:23almost literally anything
29:25is an important clue
29:27in terms of
29:28who might have been there
29:30and when
29:38this one's good
29:39yeah
29:39yeah
29:40oh yeah
29:43right here
29:44two-way repeatable
29:45all right
29:46yep
29:54that was a beautiful plug
29:59even I know
30:01that's a good one
30:08oh that is an interesting piece
30:12what is that
30:16I've never found one of these before
30:18this is a
30:20lead bag seal
30:22this is great
30:25on lot 8
30:26of Oak Island
30:27Rick and Katya
30:28have made what could be
30:30an important discovery
30:31this could
30:32possibly be a tail
30:34coming out of it
30:35yeah yeah
30:36that would have been
30:37probably from the bag
30:39or whatever it was being attached to
30:41yeah yeah
30:42your dad's phone
30:43other bag seals
30:44one on 32
30:46one on lot 5
30:48down by the ocean
30:49and yet here we are
30:51in the middle of nowhere
30:53you find a bag seal
30:56first developed in Europe
30:58in the 13th century
30:59bag seals
31:00were fasteners
31:02used to secure
31:02large quantities of goods
31:04inside cloth packaging
31:05the Oak Island team
31:07previously found
31:09one of these items
31:09on lot 5
31:10that was British
31:11and could date back
31:13to the 16th century
31:15however
31:16they uncovered another one
31:17near the shore
31:18on lot 32
31:19that was a scientific match
31:22to the 14th century
31:23lead cross
31:24which may be connected
31:25to the Knights Templar
31:28is it possible
31:29that Rick and Katya
31:30have just found
31:31a similar artifact
31:33to the best of my knowledge
31:36I don't think there was
31:38a homestead here
31:39I just
31:40for the life of me
31:41I can't understand
31:42why it's here
31:43it just doesn't make sense
31:44to me
31:45I cannot explain
31:47why this bag seal
31:48has been found
31:49almost in the middle
31:50of the lot
31:52not in proximity
31:53to the open ocean
31:56everything prior
31:57to the causeway construction
31:59in 1965
32:00things would have had
32:01to have come by the sea
32:02by way of the sea
32:04so why it was lost
32:05in the middle of the lot
32:06I cannot explain it
32:08look it's a great find
32:09I'm more curious
32:10about this one
32:11than I am about
32:12bag seals
32:13found there and there
32:14because if it had something
32:16to do with a work area
32:18then whatever was inside
32:19would have been needed here
32:21I'm really hoping
32:23that Emma and Laird
32:24can find a maker's mark
32:26or moniker on it
32:27and we could really
32:29trace this back
32:30to where it came from
32:31yeah
32:31let's get it analyzed
32:33see if there is a
32:34maker's mark
32:35or something
32:36I agree
32:37yeah
32:37good find
32:38yeah
32:38well congratulations
32:39you found something
32:40you always wanted to find
32:41well done
32:42it's cool
32:43right
32:43let's keep looking
32:45yeah
32:45let's do it
32:50the following morning
32:52let's find something
32:53yeah
32:54well hey guys
32:55how you doing
32:55how you doing
32:56Craig
32:56you about ready
32:57yeah
32:58just about
32:58while they wait
33:00for analysis
33:01on the new find
33:02from lot 8
33:03Rick
33:04Craig
33:04and other members
33:05of the team
33:06meet with
33:06underwater imaging expert
33:08Ken DeBoer
33:09in the money pit area
33:10to investigate
33:12the possible
33:1310 foot void
33:13nearly 150 feet deep
33:16in borehole
33:17BN 13.5
33:19we're going to try
33:20with the camera first
33:21so we can see
33:21if we can get an image
33:22down there
33:22sure
33:22pull the sonar down
33:23can you explain it
33:25Terry
33:25can I explain it
33:26geologically
33:27not really
33:27no I mean
33:28I'm looking for
33:29beams and posts here
33:30that's what I'm going
33:31to look for
33:32in that pictures
33:32that's what I'm going
33:33to look for
33:33in the sonar imaging
33:34as well
33:35and perhaps a little
33:36chest over in the corner
33:39cross your fingers
33:40Ken it's up to you
33:41no pressure
33:42no pressure
33:43no pressure
33:43at all
33:44no pressure
33:44alright
33:45it's very interesting
33:47I mean we're in the area
33:48of high metal values
33:49in my opinion
33:51this would be
33:51an offset chamber
33:52potentially yes
33:53so it's quite interesting
33:54so I'm ready to go
33:56let's have a look
33:56set the camera down there then
33:58ok let's get at it
34:00before running
34:01a sonar device
34:02down the borehole
34:03the team
34:04will insert
34:05Ken's
34:05high definition camera
34:07capable
34:07of operating
34:08in low light conditions
34:10with a lens
34:11that he can rotate
34:12360 degrees
34:14we'll take it to
34:15150 feet
34:16so we're into the hole
34:17ok
34:20down
34:30touchdown water
34:31water
34:31we'd love nothing
34:33better than to see
34:34a man-made cave
34:35cavern
34:36vault
34:37anything man-made
34:39really at that depth
34:40in that location
34:41I don't know
34:42what to expect
34:43but I'm very eager
34:44to find out
34:45what's down there
34:46how deep are we Charles
34:47you're 32 feet
34:49right now
34:5580 feet
35:0090 feet
35:01it's close to the top
35:03of the chamber
35:04100
35:05ok help
35:09ok there's a silk cloud
35:11coming up from around
35:12looks like a boulder
35:14or something
35:14oh that could be a bean
35:16wow
35:17wow
35:25there's something there
35:26isn't there
35:27Steve come up
35:28like about
35:28an inch or two
35:29ok
35:35oh
35:35oh that's good
35:40you can make it
35:41almost like a wall
35:42or something out there
35:43but when you move
35:43away from it
35:48we kind of go
35:49into more of an
35:49opening here
35:50really
35:54now that's
35:55interesting
35:59there's definitely
36:00some sort of
36:01opening there
36:02yeah
36:02for sure
36:04yep
36:06right there
36:07right there
36:08in the abyss
36:09in the money pit area
36:11the oak island team
36:13investigates
36:13a strange cavity
36:15some 150 feet
36:17underground
36:19Steve you want to
36:20just take us up
36:20slowly
36:21kind of inch by inch
36:22yeah I sure will
36:25you tell me when to stop
36:30oh
36:30oh
36:30did you see that
36:33turn that way
36:37hold it there for a second
36:38ok I'm going to steady it
36:42that looks like something
36:47I mean
36:48you see the potential
36:49of having boulders
36:50on top of one another
36:51but I mean
36:52just off to the left
36:53or right
36:54could be the original
36:54man-made structure
36:55holding those boulders out
36:57yeah
36:59if there was a collapse
37:01off that chamber
37:02down there
37:02or a tunnel
37:03I mean
37:03we're going to see
37:04bare earth
37:07but it looks like
37:08it has depth
37:08that's interesting
37:09yeah
37:11but we do see some
37:12potential
37:12boulder on boulder
37:14again
37:14we're towards
37:16kind of the rock
37:17facing wall
37:18if you will
37:18side of the borehole
37:21could Terry be correct
37:22that the team is looking
37:24into a man-made structure
37:26if so
37:27could it be connected
37:28to the precious metals
37:30that have been detected
37:31in this area
37:32if we rotate around
37:34this way
37:36you see we start
37:37opening up here
37:38back into that
37:40cavity area right here
37:42that's just very surprising
37:46is that what you're seeing
37:48Ken
37:48yes
37:51I'd put the sonar down
37:53and try to define the cavity
37:54that's a great idea
37:55yeah
37:57we can actually see
37:58some things
37:59but it's difficult
38:01to understand scale
38:03it's difficult
38:05to get in
38:05a real interpretation
38:06of what you're looking at
38:09so the next step here
38:10is to introduce the sonar
38:12and see how open
38:14and how big
38:15how wide
38:16how long
38:16this area is
38:19so what we have here
38:20is a scanning
38:22360 degree sonar
38:23the cables marked
38:25so we'll know
38:26where that 150 foot is
38:27okie doke
38:28keep your fingers crossed
38:33the blue robotics
38:35ping 360 sonar device
38:37emits a sound wave
38:38that reflects off of objects
38:40and barriers
38:43we're in water
38:44we're in the water
38:45this will produce
38:47full scale images
38:48of the underground void
38:50or possible cavern
38:52show me the money
38:53yeah
38:56so we're in the cavity
38:57as of right now
38:58oh there's the opening
38:59yeah you're in
39:00yeah you're in
39:01ok ok
39:01right there
39:02here we go
39:04this darker red line
39:05is the opening
39:06you can see how rough
39:07it is
39:07and the yellow
39:08is lower density
39:09returns and backscatter
39:11caused by particles
39:12in the water
39:13right
39:15go down just a little
39:16more
39:16yep
39:19yeah that popped
39:20out farther
39:21is that an opening
39:22now
39:23it's like
39:24around the hard
39:25return we've got
39:26an opening
39:27oh
39:28two directions too
39:30oh yeah
39:31looks like it's open
39:31wow
39:33to me this looks
39:34very linear
39:35like with an opening
39:36here
39:36interesting
39:40so
39:40it's two feet
39:42from side to side
39:43right now
39:43if this is not
39:45natural
39:45it could have been
39:46a larger cavity
39:47that has collapsed
39:48around it
39:49so
39:49true
39:49I mean just out
39:50to the left or right
39:51we mightn't encounter
39:52what we're hoping for
39:53yeah
39:56this hole shouldn't
39:57be open
39:58there's no reason
39:59for that
40:00geologically
40:01there's no reason
40:01for that
40:02we found gold
40:03in the water
40:04in the area
40:05right
40:07it's open
40:07down there
40:08there's no reason
40:09for it to be open
40:10unless man was down
40:12there doing something
40:14we have precious metals
40:16and high silver
40:18in the peacock
40:19and greater depths
40:21in the solution channel
40:23we've always speculated
40:24that there was more
40:25than call it an offset
40:27chamber or
40:28multiple vaults
40:29maybe we just
40:31found one of them
40:33this is a priority
40:35target
40:35now that we have
40:36video
40:37let's contact
40:38ProHawk
40:38a company that
40:39enhances video
40:40to have it analyzed
40:42we will incrementally
40:44pursue this
40:45because
40:46we're trying to find
40:47the treasure
40:48right
40:48yeah
40:49there's every indication
40:51here that that could be
40:52in this specific area
40:53yeah
40:54we have a few more
40:55holes of drill
40:55in this area
40:56good deal
40:57okay
40:57let's make it so
41:00the more Rick
41:01Marty
41:02Craig
41:03and their team
41:04dig
41:04the deeper
41:05this 230 year old
41:08mystery becomes
41:09after making
41:10intriguing
41:11new discoveries
41:12on lot 8
41:13and in the swamp
41:16has the team
41:17finally located
41:18a treasure vault
41:19150 feet
41:21underground
41:21in the money pit area
41:24but if so
41:26is that the only place
41:28where Oak Island
41:29is hiding
41:30its most
41:31precious secrets
41:35next time
41:36on the curse
41:36of Oak Island
41:37I got a signal
41:39aha
41:39whoa we got here
41:41I recognized
41:43this seal
41:44so it could date
41:45to the 1300s
41:46and that large boulder
41:49looks intriguing
41:49we've uncovered
41:50a big void right there
41:51what is underneath
41:53that boulder
41:53we put cameras
41:55in VN 13.5
41:56what we found
41:58suggests
41:58human origin
41:59it really seems
42:00like it's a depositor
42:02wow
42:07and that's not a big deal
42:07We're out
42:08we're out
42:08next level
42:08we're out
42:08we're out
42:08we're out
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